HD - Perfect Days - By The Harbourside

 

Today I have 7 cards I made using materials from Hunkydory's Perfect Days - By The Harbourside Deco-large card kit and some papers & inserts that coordinated with it.  Here's a picture of the kit without the coordinating papers:

The card kit is designed to make a single card with multiple layers - and perhaps a 2nd card from the accompanying printed cardstock.  As you'll see below, I made 7 cards - though some included some coordinating paper and some sentiments from my stash. It's been a long time since I worked with one of these kits, since I'm mostly working with Stampin' Up! products and posting them on my other blog - here.  

 

Below I've posted a close up of each card and a little bit about how I made it.

Changing up a layered focal

 

Today I have a card made from a Hunkydory set that I don't even have a name for!  My mom shared some of her set with me and these cards were what I made from it.

These materials were designed to make several A2 cards - each with a background focal with additional layered elements on it.  

I chose instead to make change them up.  

For this first card, I found paper in my stash that I thought would go, then had to cut down the focal to make it fit here - I just didn't want to do the cookie cutter way of card making that this kit was designed for!  Then I added elements on the focal and beside it, on the sentiment and on the inside of the card:

 

90th Birthday Card

Here's a special card I made for my Mother's 90th birthday. The paper is a beautiful rose print from an older Hunkydory set. I used a die set from Card Making Magic (Octagon Box Kit) for much of the card base & layers.  I've also used dies from Stampin' Up!s Spotlight on Nature for some of the circle layers - along with some circle dies.  Finally, I used some alphabet and number dies from my stash to complete the focal.

Inside:

The poem was adapted from one created by Gemini AI, and printed on patterned paper from Microsoft Word (I created a couple of circles to help me with placement of the words so I had room left for the die cut roses - which I then removed before printing).  The rose sprays were created from Paper Artist dies from Hot Off the Press.  I die cut them from gold foiled poster board and pink glitzy paper.

Box: 

 And here's the pretty box I made to hold it.

Swap Card & More

 

Today I have a couple of quick cards using an old Luxury Card Collection kit from Hunkydory called Winter Wildlife of Britain.  These particular cards come from the Fallow Deer and Hedgehog set - though I've focused on the Hedgehogs this time and saved the deer for later.  I really appreciate Hunkydory supplies when I am short on time and inspiration - their beautiful focals, embellishments, sentiments, and "Adorable Scoreable" cardstock (AS) make creating a breeze!